I adored the simplicity of this, as well as the way you managed to thread canon-verse throughout the entire piece, like Katara's mother's death as well as Zuko's scarring. The ending was lovely and you have excellent prose in all of your writing

I don't know what it is about this story, but I love it. It's so simple, and yet it manages to capture the emotions that it should. I always imagine that Ozai was abusive, even before he burned Zuko, and I like that you included that. I could probably ramble more, but I'll keep this short, so I'm just going to say - you should definitely write more Zuko/Katara stories like this.